Just so you know ahead of time if you’re a comment spammer, I moderate all first time commenters, so if you think you’re going to get your spam message posted on this blog to try and improve your ranking, you might want to look elsewhere. All that’s going to happen here is you’re going to annoy me.

I think I’ve gotten the system set up correctly for creating a forum on the site, so now I need input from you, the readers, as to what topics you’d like me to set up in the forum.

Do you want to discuss the current self help program I’m reviewing that month, something more general, like the Law of Attraction, or something else. Leave your comments on this post and I’ll see what I can come up with. As the saying goes, without you, this site doesn’t really mean much. Let me make this site into what you want it to be.

At this point, it’s beginning to look like I’m getting hopelessly behind on my original plan for this month. I didn’t really plan on how much time it was really going to take to try and do an update every day for each program I’m doing, especially since I’m away from the house over 45 hours a week for work, assuming I don’ t have overtime. Usually I’m getting an extra 9-15 hours a week worth of OT, so a lot of weeks I’m working 6 days with one day off. Sometimes I work a 7th day as OT as well.

On top of that, I’ve been investing a lot of time into getting a business off the ground, developing the site, writing the copy, and all the little things that go into starting a business. With all that being said, adding at least an additional hour a night to go through the recordings, doing the meditation, then writing it up is a bit much.

I’m hoping to be able t start cutting back on what I’m doing within the next month or so, so hopefully when I start reviewing and practicing my Photoreading program for next month, I’ll be able to keep up on the writing workload since I’m already devoting at least a couple hours a day to reading anyways, so integrating that time into going through the Photoreading course and writing about it shouldn’t really add much to my workload. At least that’s what I’m hoping.

Anyway, I apologize for not being able to keep up with the schedule I had originally planned. What I’m probably going to have to do is maybe cut down to 3-4 updates a week for this month so I have time to go through the program and write up a review.

If you have any questions about my experiences going through any of the programs I review, let me know in the comments section. I always welcome reader input and I hope to be able to answer any questions you may have. By answering questions, it forces me to have a deeper learning experience so I can provide adequate answers.

One of the things I’m interested in and I’ve posted about on the site somewhere (don’t really remember where) is the topic of accelerative learning. Part of that topic deals with altered states of consciousness. The other part is how you use those different states to allow outside (and sometimes inside) information to be absorbed and processed in the most efficient and effective manner.

To that end, I’m suspecting my topic for next month for the 1 month practice is going to deal with speed-reading, or more specifically, something called Photoreading. One of the main reasons I’m going to be going through this program (again) is to start really focusing on what can actually be accomplished by following the methods taught in this program.

To really get ahead in most jobs, you really need to absorb a lot of information extremely fast. Traditional reading methods don’t really cut it in today’s high paced world where everyone suffers from some form of information overload. Granted, I can absorb information faster than most people. When I’m really trying to learn something fast, I can usually read at somewhere around 2,000-3,000 words a minute. My family and friends have seen me do it on more than one occasion.

When I was a teenager, I got my hands on an Evelyn Wood Speedreading course book. I’ve read it several times and have gotten a lot of benefit out of it. What’s kinda sad is that when I was in school, somewhere between 4th and 6th grade, I used to do speed reading naturally. I would study my textbook about 5-10 minutes before a test (the only time I ever even looked at the information) and re-read the information probably 10 times or so in that space of time, and would usually ace the test.

Unfortunately, my teachers saw me doing that and advised me, in their misguided but well meaning manner, that nobody could read that fast. I had the bad misfortune of actually believing them and have spent a significant portion of my life trying to relearn how I used to absorb information that fast.

That brings me back to what I’m planning on for next month. The Photoreading Whole Mind system method of learning is a quantum jump forward (no pun intended) in how a person can learn new information. My goal before finding this course was to eventually hit 4,000 – 5,000 words a minute reading speed. With Photoreading, they’ve had practitioners hit calculated speeds hitting ranges over 100,000 words a minute.

They have proven this speed over and over again, so I have no doubt that it’s possible. The main limit to the “reading” speed is how fast you can actually turn the page. Using a computer, some practitioners have hit calculated speeds of over 1 million words a minute.

The main stumbling block to people believing it’s possible to ‘read’ at this speed is what actually happens when Photoreading. You’re not reading the material in the traditional sense of the word. You’re actually absorbing information via the preconscious processor. It’s along the same theory as how you can absorb a photo. You don’t look at each dot that makes up the photo, you absorb it as a whole.

Once the information is loaded into your mind via the preconscious processor, you unconscious mind categorizes and processes the information. After letting it gestate in your mind, you go through a few more steps to allow the information to be available the conscious mind.

Realistically, if it can be learned from a book, you can probably become an expert on any topic within weeks instead of months. With that being said, I’m hoping that by using the process all next month, it’ll help cement the process into my habits once and for all so I use it all the time and become much more proficient in it and have more faith that it’s working and an effective means to learn new information.

The Quantum Jumping meditation exercise this time around utilizes Burt’s own version of Feng Shui to help bring about changes in your life. Feng Shui in the traditional sense uses the Bagua (different than the Bagha) to help determine the layout of a room, things that go in that room, building layout and positioning, etc. to help direct the flow of Chi throughout the dwelling to effect positive change.

Feng Shui in the traditional sense is, for lack of a better way of describing it, a form of Chinese Geomancy. The thinking being is that obstructed or improperly channeled Chi can cause negative energy to build up in a location and cause negative things to happen. By properly arranging items in an area, or using architecture to create a building that takes these theories into account, you can redirect the Chi flows to create positive effects, like attracting money for example.

Burt’s version of Feng Shui really has no bearing on traditional Feng Shui. His version is basically arranging a room based off of your doppelganger’s “advice” in order to trigger positive change in your life. I know it sounds similar, but the thinking behind it are polar opposites.

Traditional style thinking says that if you position things in such and such manner, then it will cause a positive effect no matter what or who is there. Burt’s version is completely dependent on you, the Quantum Jumper, specifically. The former has rules and strictures to determine the layout; the latter is completely based off your subjective understanding of your doppelganger. What you do in a room based off of your doppelganger’s advise is completely specific to you and no one else.

I’m not trying to say one is good or bad. I’m just trying to indicate the difference is between traditional Chinese Feng Shui and Burt’s version. That way, you won’t try and go out and get books on Feng Shui and get totally confused on the topic.

There’s a lot of merit to what Burt’s trying to do in this meditation, but you have to understand the underlying reasons for why it works. Irrespective whether you believe in the doppelganger or not, there’s some solid psychology going on here. A lot of it could be referenced to NLP.

Where I think this meditation gets it’s power from is in imagery and an NLP notion of anchoring, in this case a visual anchor. The idea is, when you get yourself into the proper frame of mind, you do something specific to lock that particular thought-form into your subconscious. For example, you’d press on a specific part of your body a certain way or you’d hear a certain sound each time you got to this correct state of mind. In Burt’s method, it’s a specific visual/physical layout of a room that gets you into the proper mental frame to accomplish what your objective is.

When done correctly, it can be highly effective in locking in that specific thought-form so it becomes a permanent part of your personality/mental way of thinking. The downside is, you have to actually change your environment physically for this process to be effective using the method he’s teaching. If you don’t leave these changes up long enough, then it’s not going to be as effective/successful as it could have been.

So, it’s a good meditation as long and you know the limitations and benefits to doing it. This is one of the more specialized meditations he walks you through.